Civil Rights Movement

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Ray Fisher thegrio.com
December 18, 2020
After his portrayal of Victor Stone/Cyborg in 'Justice League,' Ray Fisher is set to star in ABC’s Women of the…
December 12, 2020
1960s civil rights activist Gloria Richardson was profiled in The Washington Post where she urged the next generation to keep…
Rosa Parks thegrio.com
December 1, 2020
Rosa Parks is being honored on the 65th anniversary of her refusal to give up her seat to a white…
MLK FBI thegrio.com
November 18, 2020
Check out the trailer for Sam Pollard's 'MLK/FBI' doc which examines how the government identifies and suppresses "enemies of the…
November 11, 2020
In 1960, Lucille Bridges walked her then-6-year-old daughter past racist crowds to became the first Black student at her all-white…
September 24, 2020
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago is where his mother held the boy's open-casket service after his…
John Lewis thegrio.com
July 29, 2020
John Lewis associate and political strategist Adjoa B. Asamoah writes that his legacy of "good trouble" must continue to be…
July 23, 2020
Charles Evers, a history-making Black mayor in Mississippi with connections to prominent national Democrats and Republicans, died Wednesday. He was…
July 17, 2020
The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and led the Southern Christian…
June 28, 2020
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed…
MLK Mother thegrio.com
May 4, 2020
On this day 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr., driving a white woman, was pulled over in a traffic…
Joseph Lowery_TheGio
March 29, 2020
"We love him and miss him so much already," The Rev. Jesse Jackson told The Grio exclusively of Joseph Lowery.…
Rosa Parks
December 2, 2019
A brand new bronze statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks was dedicated in Montgomery Alabama. Steven Reed, Montgomery's first…
MLK Assassination thegrio.com
April 27, 2019
"Green Book" A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Ala. being renovated under a Civil Rights monument plan by former President Barack Obama…
Emmett Till TheGrio
August 24, 2018
The murder of Emmett Till is just as relevant today as it was in 1955 when his death sparked an…
AP Dorothy Cotton thegrio.com
June 12, 2018
Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes…
John Lewis Run theGrio.com
February 15, 2018
Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis is set to release a new multi-part graphic novel, Run, which will chronicle his…
December 11, 2017
Eboni K. Williams quickly reminds conservative sheriff that John Lewis is a civil rights icon
March 24, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — An abstract painting of lynching victim Emmett Till on display at the Whitney Museum of American…
August 18, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of early 20th century black nationalist Marcus Garvey on Wednesday said his father's 129th birthday…